Across the board for research and to start strengthening
some eye centers that are already established. There are about
eight or nine places you can call eye centers now, and
to strengthen their training and research capabilities. But
they already have $50 million, so there is some substantial
eye research already going on. But $50 million is not a
great sun of money for these days for a solution to anything
so delicate as eye problems. One of the reasons I'm so interested
in the eye -- and I'm sure you would be -- is that the retina
is really the entrance to the brain. The relationship of the
eye to the whole neurology of the nervous system and to the
brain is just stupendous, and it has to be elucidated before
we really understand the brain or the eye.

Q:

Now we shall hear about the Lasker awards, the decisions
that have been made.

Laskar:

The 1975 Lasker Awards. Dr. who stimulated
the enactment of legislation for the National Eye Institute,
and who has given for every dollar raised by the organization
of Research to Prevent Blindness Double the money, and who
as a result has given seed money for the building of six or seven eye research
institutes in the United states, including one in Milwaukee,
one in Houston -- he helped to build the new one at Columbia
through getting seed money and the help of fund-raisers, paying